Reality Bites
Oh the wicked web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
The Democratic Party has got to be sitting back, eyes glazed and jaw agape, thinking “What the hell just happened here? One minute we’re filling Invseco Field with devoted, teary eyed pilgrims watching their Messiah of Hope and Change accept the presidential nomination amidst the columns of a Mount Olympus-like Greek temple, and the next these same once-devoted followers are carrying protest signs and screaming ‘Off with their heads’”.
It has got to be tough when reality takes a big bite out of your propitiate promise of enigmatic change.
Even the most inveterate public speakers amongst the Democrats have taken to mercurial tap dancing, querulous innuendo and outright deception when confronted by the overwhelming level of outrage shown by their once unshakable supporters.
Democrats are cancelling town hall meetings with their constituents faster than a Tom Arnold sitcom. They don’t know what to say to appease their angry voters and are getting absolutely no help or direction from their leader in the White House. So they have fallen back to the risible position of “just say anything”.
In several of the recent town hall meetings Democrats have emphatically stated that there is no health care bill yet. But right there on the government’s own web site is all 1017 pages of H.R. 3200, a gleaming, steaming omnibus pile of subpar nationalized health care and reduced or eliminated health care choices. For years politicians have acted as if there was no video or audio tape, denying that they said or did what was clearly shown and heard in the tapes. They acted as if Americans were both deaf and blind. In this latest attempt at subterfuge the Democrats are acting as if we are illiterate as well.
Barack Obama has all but abandoned his initial emphasis on ObamaCare providing health insurance to the currently uninsured and is now trying to convince those already insured that they will not lose anything with his $1 trillion package of onerous health care otiose. But because Americans have become accustomed to actually receiving health care when we are sick rather than 6 months after we’re dead, for the first time in this community activist’s political career voters aren’t buying what he’s selling. He has lost his ability to frame his words so as to hide his true meaning and besot the public at large with a wave of his hand.
Obama recently claimed that the public was unfairly faulting him for not eliminating the deficit he inherited from the Bush administration. But as he and his perfidious minions in Congress have tripled that inherited deficit in his first six months, this time the smoke and mirrors didn’t fool anybody.
Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrat Representative David Scott have tried to tie the swastika symbol to the ObamaCare protesters. Numerous Democrat House and Senate Members have called the protesters a mob of thugs and that the outrage was not real but rather “manufactured”. Recent Democrat Senator Arlen Specter was just quoted as saying the protesters “are not necessarily representative of America”. With all due respect to the esteemed Senator from Pennsylvania, if we are not representative of America then what are we? Allow me to suggest that perhaps it is the profligate nationalized health care plan contained in the 1017 pages of Obama’s fatuous socialist agenda known as ObamaCare that is not representative of America.
I really wonder if we rubbed Arlen Specter with Preparation H if he would get smaller and be less annoying.
Many predicted that it would take at least four years for Obama to lose his magic touch at winning the hearts and minds of his followers by saying nothing better than anybody else. I think the recent rebellion against his ObamaCare plan and other out of control tax and spend debacles have shown those predictions to be incorrect.
People are watching and listening. Some for the first time.
And oh, by the way, we’re reading too.
